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Word: postered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koerner's June Night (see color pages'). Emerging one evening from the Kings Highway elevated station in Brooklyn, Koerner came face to face with a scene very much like the scene in the painting. The mural ad (for a photographer who specialized in wedding pictures), the poster with the sleeping baby, and even the blimp, were all there. What first struck Koerner about the bride & groom on the poster was that they reminded him of his parents. His second reaction was that they represented a gigantic "illusion" of wedded bliss, superimposed on the brick reality of the apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Storyteller | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...architecturally constructed picture. He captured, then dramatically heightened, the hot, wet, rosy light enveloping the scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming it all, and he might have represented Koerner himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Storyteller | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...party photographed him, sporting a borrowed tie, against a party poster of an old woman begging alms. A comrade pointed meaningly to the poster. "Do you know what that means?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Way of All Flesh | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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